The Ring Quotes

“Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world, Frodo, besides the will of evil.”
― Philippa Boyens

“O Sam! cried Frodo. 'What have I said? What have I done? Forgive me! After all you have done. It is the horrible power of the Ring. I wish it had never, never, been found. But don't mind me, Sam. I must carry the burden to the end. It can't be altered. You can't come between me and this doom.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“She had been nothing but a beloved bauble passed from a mother to a son, a decoration of vanity, devoid of identity.”
― D. Morgenstern

“Was this new self awareness a gift or a curse?”
― D. Morgenstern

“And far away, as Frodo put on the Ring and claimed it for his own, even in Sammath Naur the very heart of his realm, the Power in Barad-dur was shaken, and the Tower trembled from its foundations to its proud and bitter crown. The Dark Lord was suddenly aware of him, and his Eye piercing all shadows looked across the plain to the door that he had made; and the magnitude of his own folly was revealed to him in a blinding flash, and all the devices of his enemies were at last laid bare.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“Without hope, there is no despair. There is only meaningless suffering.”
― D. Morgenstern

“Hate and love were both conceived in fear, perhaps that was why they were nearly the same thing, but only one was steeped in hope.”
― D. Morgenstern

“Frodo: If you ask it of me, I will give you the One Ring.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“The ring!" exclaimed Frodo. 'Has he left me that? I wonder why. Still, it may be useful.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“Frodo gave a cry, and there he was, fallen upon his knees at the chasm's edge. But Gollum, dancing like a mad thing, held aloft the ring, a finger still thrust within its circle.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“That alone would be Eddie's triumph in all this; that she had taught the kelpie suffering.”
― D. Morgenstern